Re: Fetch Specifications and Regular Expressions

	No, you can't use regular expressions with a fetch specification.  
SQL has its own pattern matching Add multiple terms to the FS  
dynamically, or use the SQL/EO pattern matching. Looks like the  
first, based on what you're trying to do.


On 9 Jul  2007, at 8:37, Jeff Dunnett wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have been searching through my various WebObjects books, the
> archives for this list and the web for a solution to my problem but I
> can't find it.
>
> I have a fetch specification:
>
> ((contest.contestEvent like $contest) and (processed = $processed)
> and (schoolNumber like $schoolNumber))
>
> For the value of $schoolNumber I want to pass in a regular expression
> like ^05(69|70|71|72).  For some reason when try to fetch objects
> (after having passed in that string) it returns no objects (even
> though I know there are some in the test database.  I have tried a
> few variations on the regex such as ^05(69|70|71|72)????? etc.  Can
> anyone point out what i am doing wrong?  Can I even use regular
> expressions with a fetch specification?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
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